As I was going through my social media the other day I had come across a phenomenon called crown shyness,”In which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps. ” This Phenomenon usually happens with trees of the same species. Although I have not seen this happening on campus I found the channel gaps looking very similar to a river map with its contributing tributaries.
Fabulous! – time to take a walk in the woods. This is the sort of amazing thing that we probably would not notice unless we were looking AND seeing. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” – H.D. Thoreau.
This is really cool! I never knew this was a thing, but now that I do I see it all around campus. Thanks!